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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • The drawbacks are many and the benefits are few.

    Watching foreign films would be a pain, where is this in the world again, what does 19:00 mean for them? More exposition, or you just have to guess based on languag and accent.

    I need this work done by our team in XYZ country, what are their working hours? (wow, look at that, still using timezones?)

    When you arrive somewhere on holiday, now you have to get a sense of the time there. Or continually be thinking “what’s that in my home time?/what’s that in solar time”, which is why solar time just makes more sense.

    People aren’t going to stop thinking in solar time, ever. We’re hard-wired to be awake with the sun. It doesn’t matter what the numbers are, you will associate them with the sun. The question then becomes, would we rather all use roughly the same numbers (timezones, what we currently have), or different numbers (everyone using UTC).

    Using UTC solves only 1 problem, you can say verbally to someone across the world, let’s make the meeting 15:00 - but this is already easily solved by using a calendar which converts for you…

    There’s a reason we have never used a single non-solar time, it’s just worse and I think there’s a reason these posts always end up on programmer focused places on the internet. Yes, I’m sure their job is annoying, and it would be easier to not have to solve time conversion problems, but the time conversion problems wouldn’t even go away if you forced everyone to use UTC. You’d just start having to do conversions to solar time, or looking up waking hours (which is just timezones)

    This is a solved problem.





  • Physiotherapists use a form of acupuncture called dry needling, which can be used to trigger muscle twitching/relaxation (I’m not really super knowledgeable on it, I’ve just been to the physio, who use this in combination with massage, specific exercises etc)

    It’s certainly not placebo

    As for all the other claims made, I dunno.


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    2 months ago

    Thank you. This is such a breath of fresh air. In all cases I prefer a simple answer, when organising an event with multiple people where I want to get ideas on numbers for planning.

    • Yes - great! See you there

    • No (with or without a reason) - fantastic! We’ve all got our own stuff going on or reasons why we don’t want to go!

    • Maybe, with a reason why, or when you would be able to give an answer - cool!

    • Maybe, with no further explanation - ugh. I’ll just assume you’re not coming and don’t care.

    Maybe with no explanation is the cowards way out. Especially when “no sorry, I’m busy!” is the standard white lie.

    “No because I don’t want to (don’t feel socially up to it)” is the hero’s response and I salute you 🫡